Last week, Sahuaro’s health classes started their lessons on CPR training. It is important for students, especially Freshmen, to have learned how to do CPR, which stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, in case someone may end up having cardiac arrest. CPR must be done quickly and immediately when the heart stops, which is why our students needed to learn and understand how to do chest compressions.
For many of our students, this was the first time they had seen how to do CPR, but for some of our students, they had already seen CPR being performed. Our students needed to do their best with what they learned to be able to be certified and graduate.
All of our health classes are full of freshmen, where the teacher may be different for each class period, depending on which room the freshmen have. During freshman year, getting CPR trained early on may be their best course of action, as it is easier not to take the entire class again in a later year. All Sahuaro students must be CPR trained to graduate, and many students elect to get it out of the way early on. For the students who were already certified, they did not have to do the training as they had already completed the requirement.
Keaira Lumke, a Freshman who did the CPR training this past Friday, March sixth, said she felt, “Good about myself, good that I could do it.” A different Freshman student who had already done her CPR earlier in the week, Ava Boydston, said, “It was fine, but it was weird.”
Health classes are meant to be freshmen classes, but for those who don’t have a health class this year, you can count on having it get done either in your junior or senior year. We were excited to hear the news of how our freshmen and older students who had to either retake the class or take the test fared with their CPR training.
If the time comes that someone goes into cardiac arrest, with CPR training, our students are equipped to do their best if they have to end up performing CPR one day.
